Reply #5: I can't see that

[theriverburns]

"The theory that 'they have no love of this country and are only in politics to rob' us explains what we observe."

You have the majority of our (un)elected federal officials criminals rather than followers of mistaken, but well intentioned ideoloigy?

I have a brother in law who believes he paid his way through a $40,000.00 a year college working part-time, summers at the campus pizza shop. He thinks that "everybody ought to pull themselves up by their bootstraps" the way he did.

He means well. He also believes that "anyone can do it if he can". That his father was wealthy is irrelevant. And possibly even more evidence of the truth of his accomplishments and deservant affluence.